Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. – Voltaire

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. – Voltaire

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. – Alexis de Tocqueville